List of the type-specimens of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in the Triatomines Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Brazil

Abstract

The Triatomines Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CTIOC) holds 90 holotypes, seven syntypes, and 619 paratypes of the family Reduviidae, distributed in 44 genera and nine subfamilies: Chryxinae, Emesinae, Hammacerinae, Harpactorinae, Peiratinae, Reduviinae, Stenopodainae, Triatominae, and Vesciinae. A detailed list containing nomenclatural, taxonomic, and locality information about all these types is herein presented for the first time.

The importance of biological collections for public health: The case of the Triatominae collection of the Museum of the Institute of Agricultural Zoology “Francisco Fernández Yépez”, Venezuela

“…There are several entomological collections with deposited triatomines that are distributed throughout the world (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979;Galvão 2014), but most of them present in Brazil (Lent and Wygodzinsky 1979;Gonçalves et al 1993;Marassá & Barata 2000;Costa et al 2008;Galvão 2014;Rodrigues et al 2015;Souza et al 2014;Vendrami et al 2018). Faced with the need to disclose the biological material deposited in these collections, Brazilian articles were published compiling the information of the deposited in the Triatomines Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CTIOC/FIOCRUZ), State of Rio de Janeiro (Gonçalves et al 1993;Rodrigues et al 2015), in the Collection of Chagas Disease Vectors (COLVEC/FIOCRUZ), State of Minas Gerais (Souza et al 2014) (Marassá & Barata 2000).…”